Tag: Strike

Govt puts 25% increment on the table for civil servants

Published on February 20, 2013 by FACE OF MALAWI

Sources say government is willing to offer civil servants a salary increment of between 20 and 25 percent and not […]

Civil servants rejects government negotiator for tricking union leaders on Monday

Published on February 16, 2013 by FACE OF MALAWI

Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) has said the government should remove McPhail Magwira as chairperson of the Government Negotiation Team […]

Airport workers threaten strike

Published on November 16, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi Catering Services employees at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Thursday gave their bosses a 24 hour ultimatum to […]

CSTU to sue govt over salary disparities

Published on November 8, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The Malawi government risk being dragged to court this week by the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) over salary disparities […]

Bunda College bars 22 ring leaders from attending classes

Published on September 18, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

One week after opening the institution, authorities at Malawi’s Bunda College of Agriculture have barred 22 students from attending classes, […]

Polytechnic lecturers end strike, accept a 25% stepped salary increment

Published on September 17, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Lecturers at Malawi Polytechnic have accepted a 25 percent salary increment offer and have since called off their strike, a […]

Strikes to worsen economic woes

Published on September 7, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

President Joyce Banda said recently that strikes will not increase workers’ salaries but economic experts have warned her administration to […]

Polytechnic strike costs K92 milllion and counting

Published on September 7, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The strike by lecturers at the Malawi Polytechnic College in Blantyre—a constituent college of the University of Malawi, is becoming […]

Govt to hold indaba on strikes, but fails to provide details

Published on September 5, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi Government has decided to hold an all-inclusive stakeholders meeting by next week as a means of finding solutions to […]

KCN support staff on strike over salaries

Published on September 4, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Support staff at Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN) yesterday went on strike to press their employers to hike their salaries. […]

Blantyre City Council workers strike, demand 150% pay rise

Published on September 4, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

As industrial actions by employees of various public institutions in demand for a pay rise continue in Malawi, Blantyre city […]

Chanco lecturers resolve to strike, as Poly lecturers, Unima support staff sit-in continue

Published on August 31, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Chancellor College, the largest of the University of Malawi colleges, may not open next month due to an impending industrial […]

MRA recalls fired staff

Published on August 9, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has called back its former employees including the 215 who were controversially fired in July 2010. […]

UNIMA lecturers threaten strike, demand 113% salary increment

Published on August 7, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Lecturers of the University of Malawi (UNIMA) on Monday threatened to take an industrial action against their employers if their […]

Stakeholders appeal for reduced industrial actions

Published on August 6, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The country’s increased industrial strikes would be reduced following new bargaining measures government and worker’s representatives have drawn. Unionists, employers […]

One dies as Medical Officers strike continues

Published on July 5, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

A critically ill patient at Neno district hospital in Malawi died on Wednesday after being left unattended by striking medical […]

Peoples’s lives at stake as District Hospitals go on strike

Published on July 3, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Hundreds of poor and hopeless patients in Malawi are being turned back without accessing treatment because workers in some of […]

Kamuzu Central Hospital: Patients helpless as 5 die due to lack of attention

Published on June 4, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Patients at the emergency section of the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, were helpless on Sunday during […]